Publishing Procedure and Strategies to Improve Research Visibility and Impact

Publishing Procedure and
Strategies to Improve
Research Visibility and
Impact
aleebrahim@Gmail.com
@aleebrahim
www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2414-2009
http://scholar.google.com/citations
Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD
Research Visibility and Impact Consultant
19th December 2018
All of my presentations are available online at:
https://figshare.com/authors/Nader_Ale_Ebrahim/100797
Link to the current presentation:
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7475036.v1

Abstract: Publication in a peer-reviewed journal is the obvious goal of
most researchers to reach others in the field, advancing knowledge and
encouraging communication between groups with similar research interest.
One of the most important and possibly the least well understood aspects of
the publication process is the choice of a suitable journal that is likely to
improve your research visibility and impact. For instance, publishing your
article in an Open Access journal. On the other side, online profiles is an
essential tool to disseminate your research and publications. Scholarly
identifiers and online profiles like ResearcherID and ORCiD provide a
solution to the author ambiguity problem within the scholarly research
community. In this presentation, I introduce some of the most important
criteria for writing a paper, choosing a journal, and disseminating your
research especially creating online profile that promise higher research
visibility and impact.
Keywords: H-index, Improve citations, Research tools, Bibliometrics,
Research Visibility, ISI Journal, Research Impact
Publishing procedure and strategies to improve research visibility and impact
©2018-2019 Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim
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Research Tools Mind Map
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Research Tools Mind Map -> (4) Enhancing visibility and impact
-> On-line Curriculum vitae -> ResearcherID, ORCiD
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From submission to sharing: the life
cycle of an article
• Phase 1: Conception and birth
• Phase 2: Submission
• Phase 3: Reviewers
• Phase 4: Production and publication
• Phase 5: Dissemination and archiving
– The article is published, but its life cycle isn’t
yet complete. In this phase, dissemination can
start; sharing the Share Links article helps
increase readership and make it more visible.
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Source: https://www.elsevier.com/reviewers-update/home/featured-article/from-submission-to-sharing-the-life-cycle-of-an-article

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Source: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/201706.0111/v1

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Source: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/201706.0111/v1

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Research Outputs and Visibility
Manager at Brunel University London.
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Source: Researchers, publishers, libraries and data centres all have a role in promoting and encouraging data citation. (Available on:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/11/26/why-not-cite-data/)
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Source: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Research_Article_Metrics
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Brazilian citation scheme outed
Thomson Reuters suspends journals from its rankings for ‘citation
stacking’
Source: Richard Van Noorden , Nature News, 27 August 2013
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Citation manipulation: Journal retracts paper because
author boosted references to a journal he edits
Source: http://retractionwatch.com/2014/02/03/citation-manipulation-journal-retracts-paper-because-author-boosted-references-to-a-journal-he-edits/
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Path analysis of the relationship between visibility and citation: the
mediating roles of save, discussion, and recommendation metrics
Source: Ebrahimy, S., Mehrad, J., Setareh, F., & Hosseinchari, M. (2016). Path analysis of the relationship between visibility and citation: the mediating
roles of save, discussion, and recommendation metrics. Scientometrics 1-14. doi:10.1007/s11192-016-2130-z
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Increasing Visibility and Enhancing
Impact of Research
Source: Bong, Yiibonn and Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Increasing Visibility and Enhancing Impact of Research (April 24, 2017). Asia
Research News 2017. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2959952
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Preparing for Publication – Writing
• Use a unique name consistently throughout academic
careers;
• Use a standardized institutional affiliation and address;
• Repeat key phrases in the abstract while writing
naturally;
• Assign keyword terms to the manuscript;
• Use more references;
• Write a longer paper;
• Write a review paper;
• Present a working paper;
Read more: Ale Ebrahim, N., Salehi, H., Embi, M. A., Habibi Tanha, F., Gholizadeh, H., Motahar, S. M., & Ordi, A. (2013).
Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency. International Education Studies, 6(11), 93-99. doi:
10.5539/ies.v6n11p93
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Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Optimize Your Article for Search Engine (December 23, 2014). University of Malaya Research Bulletin, Vol. 2,
No. 1, 23, December 2014. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2588209
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Well-Optimized Abstract:
Source: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/seo.asp
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Poorly Optimized Abstract:
Source: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/seo.asp
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Preparing for Publication – Collaboration
& Journal Selection
• Publish with international authors;
• Publish papers with a Nobel laureates;
• Publish your article in one of the journals
everyone in your discipline reads
• Open Access (OA) has a positive impact on
growth of citations;
• Publish your work in a journal with the highest
number of indexing
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Where to publish?
Source: http://www.tut.fi/en/library/research-support-services/publishing/where-to-publish/index.htm
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Maximize Your Research Impact
Step 1: Identify the right journal
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Select the journal that suits your
research by tools
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Find the perfect journal for your
article
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Perfect Match: EndNote’s latest feature matches
article drafts with publications
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Strategies to increase citations
• Target a journal with a high impact factor, or, in fact, with any impact factor
at all!
• Choose a new, rapidly growing field of research. Articles on hot topics tend
to cite much more recent references than those in more traditional fields.
• Target journals in rapidly growing research fields because they tend to
publish papers with a short time interval from submission to acceptance.
• Write research articles, technical notes and reviews. For the purposes of
calculating citations, these are considered “citable” items. Editorials, letters,
news items and meeting abstracts are “non-citable items”.
• Write reviews in addition to research papers. Reviews are more likely to be
cited than original research papers.
• Write at length. Longer articles are cited more often.
Source: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/services/research/citationindexes.jsp
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Strategies to increase citations
• Make it easy for others to access your work. Online availability of articles
clearly increases citations (and therefore, the journal’s impact factor). It
helps if researchers can find relevant articles and access them instantly,
rather than working their way through barriers of passwords and
technicalities. This effect will increase with the availability of search engines
like Google Scholar.
– Target “open access” journals (especially if they have an impact factor).
– Make your work available via the Google searches/ResearcherID.
– Put the address for your ResearcherID page into your email signature as a
clickable link.
• Don’t write as a member of a consortium. It’s better to be one in a list of
individual authors. Some evidence shows citations to articles written by
consortia have been undercounted.
• Find quick publication Journals
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Open Access Journal
One key request of researchers across the world
is unrestricted access to research publications.
Open access gives a worldwide audience larger
than that of any subscription-based journal and
thus increases the visibility and impact of
published works. It also enhances indexing,
retrieval power and eliminates the need for
permissions to reproduce and distribute content.
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Source: Gasparyan, A. Y. (2013). Choosing the target journal: do authors need a comprehensive approach?. Journal of Korean medical science, 28(8), 1117-1119.
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Abstracted/indexed in
1. ABI/INFORM
2. Association of Business Schools' (ABI) Academic Journal Quality Guide (www.the-abs.org.uk)
3. Australian Business Deans' Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List
4. Australian Research Council ERA Ranked Journal List
5. Compendex
6. Computer Abstracts International Database
7. Current Contents / Engineering, Computing & Technology
8. Current Contents / Social & Behavioural Sciences
9. Emerald Management Reviews (EMR)
10. INSPEC Abstracts
11. International Abstracts in Operations Research
12. OR/MS Index and Annual Comprehensive Index
13. Science Citation Index
14. Social Science Citation Index
15. SCOPUS
16. Zentralblatt MATH
• Source: Journal of the Operational Research Society
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Where to publish?
Source: http://www.tut.fi/en/library/research-support-services/publishing/where-to-publish/index.htm
• Does the publisher accept parallel publishing in institutional repositories and is
there an embargo
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Where should I submit my publication?
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Identifying Key Journals in the field
Search keywords on WoS
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Check the highest “ Record Count”
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Select the JCR “Categories By Rank”
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Select the JCR Category
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Ranked by Impact Factor
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Search keywords on SCOPUS
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Check the “Source Title”
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Select the Subject Area on Scimago Journal & Country Rank
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Dissemination 1/2
• Self-archive articles
• Keep your professional web pages and
published lists up to date
• Make your research easy to find,
especially for online searchers
• Deposit paper in Open Access repository
• Contribute to Wikipedia
• Start blogging
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Dissemination 2/2
• Join academic social networking sites
• link your latest published article to your
email signature
• Create a podcast describing the research
project and submit the podcast to YouTube
or Vimeo
• Make an online CV.
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Things to do when a paper comes out:
a checklist
• Write a blog-post on SV-POW!
• Create a new page about paper in the SV-POW! sidebar.
• Add the full-resolution figures to the sidebar page.
• Update my online publications list.
• Update my University of Bristol IR page.
• Update my ORCID page.
• Update my LinkedIn page.
• Mendeley, if you do it (I don’t).
• ResearchGate, if you do it (I don’t).
• Academia.edu, if you do it (I don’t).
• Keep an eye on the new taxon’s Wikipedia page (once it exists).
• Add the paper to the Paleobiology Database (or ask someone to do it for you if you’re not authorised). [Credit: Jon
Tennant]
• Tweet about it! [Credit: Matt Hodgkinson]
• Update Google Scholar, if it doesn’t pick up on the publication on its own [Credit: Christopher Taylor]
• Post on Facebook [Credit: Andy Farke]
• Send PDF to the institution that hosts the material [Credit: Andy Farke]
• Email colleagues who might be interested [Credit: Andy Farke]
• Write short popular language account for your institution if applicable [Credit: Andy Farke]
• Submit any silhouettes to PhyloPic [Credit: Mike Keesey]
Source: https://svpow.com/2015/06/04/things-to-do-when-a-paper-comes-out-a-checklist/
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Research Tools Mind Map
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Introducing our Digital Identity Healthcheck for Academics
Source: https://blog.piirus.ac.uk/2015/10/19/digital-identity-healthcheck-for-academics-our-video-summary/
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How to increase the visibility of your research?
1. Get unique author
identifier ORCID to
distinguish yourself and your
work from that of all other
researchers.
2. Share outputs of
your research
3. Create and keep up
to date online profile
(or a web CV)
4. Engage in social
networking
communities
5. Blog
Adopted from: http://pitt.libguides.com/researchvisibility

Why do I need a researcher profile?
Researcher profiles allow
you to:
– make you and your
research more discoverable
– create and manage a
publication list
– avoid misidentification
– create opportunities to be
cited
– find and be found by
potential collaborators
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Source: http://libguides.csu.edu.au/profile

The Challenge at Hand
• Inconsistent name formats caused by the authors themselves or
editors
• Various transliteration systems, especially where different non-
Roman alphabet names result in the same transliterated Roman
alphabet name.
• Legal name changes
• Cultural variants in the position of surnames
• Compound or hyphenated names
• The sheer volume of scholarly materials
• Highly similar names sometimes even doing similar work at the
same institution.
• The large number of common names, especially certain surnames in
many cultures.
Source: A. B. Wagner, “Author Identification Systems,” Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009.
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Including hyperlinks in your CV can
make a big difference.
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Examples of online profile
/C.V. including hyperlinks

Professor Charles Hirschman
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Thor
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Peter Brusilovsky
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Jorge E. Hirsch
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Position Associate Professor
Faculty Faculty of Humanities
School School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
Department Department of Film and Television
Campus Bentley Campus
Location 208.312D/Level 3
Email Artur.Lugmayr@curtin.edu.au
Twitter twitter.com/lartur
Website www.artur-lugmayr.com
Linked In linkedin.com/in/lugmayr
ORCID orcid.org/orcid.org/0000-0001-6994-4470
ResearcherID www.researcherid.com/rid/G-4357-2014
Google Scholar scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=KLpGmngAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Scopus Author Identifier www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=35071658200
Staff Profile
Dr Artur Lugmayr

Adapted from : MIyairi, N. (2016). ORCID: Connecting research & researchers. Paper presented at the Asia Open Access Summit 2016, INTEKMA
Resort & Convention Centre, Shah Alam.
ORCID provides a
persistent digital
identifier that
distinguishes researchers
from each other
… and MORE

ORCID (“orkid”)
= Open Researcher and Contributor ID
“ORCID is like a DOI for researchers.”
NOT:
What is ORCID ?
Publishing procedure and strategies to
improve research visibility and impact
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Source: Michael Ladisch, University College Dublin, 3rd Bibliometrics in Libraries meeting, York, UK, 4th July 2014

ORCID is a hub
Repositories
Funders
Higher
Education
and
Employers
Professional
Associations
Other
person
identifiers
Publishers
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DOI
ISBN
ORCID connects
different ID systems
through open &
persistent identifiers
 Machine-readable
 Interoperable
Source: MIyairi, N. (2016). ORCID: Connecting research & researchers. Paper presented at the Asia Open Access Summit 2016, INTEKMA Resort &
Convention Centre, Shah Alam.

Orcid provides:
Plumbing for research
information
Tools to build trust in digital
information
Persistent digital identifiers to distinguish
researchers from each other
Member-built integrations enabling
automated links between researchers and
their activities/affiliations
A hub for machine-readable connections
between identifiers for organizations,
funding, outputs, and people
65Source: MIyairi, N. (2016). ORCID: Connecting research & researchers. Paper presented at the Asia Open Access Summit 2016, INTEKMA Resort &

Why get an ORCID identifier?
Benefits of getting an ORCID iD include:
• Ensuring researchers get credit for their work
• Reducing time to identify scholarly output (see “Publisher integration,” below)
• Enabling scholars to keep track of and report on their work with funders, publishers and
institutions
• Repurposing data for use in CV generation, citation repositories, BU Profiles, annual reports,
faculty web-sites, and other systems (see “Grant submission integration,” below)
• Tying individuals to their scholarly work should make finding academic papers easier and more
accurate
Publisher integration: Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, Nature and other major publishers have begun integrating ORCID
iDs into the manuscript submission process, and embedding ORCID identifiers across their scientific and scholarly
research ecosystem. This will save authors time during submission, and enable automatic updating of author
bibliographies when articles are published. That information can be ingested into BU systems, at each scholar’s
discretion.
Grant submission integration: NIH, NSF and other federal agencies are planning to integrate ORCID iDs into the
ScienCV platform, for linking researchers, their grants, and their scientific output. The US federal government has been
working to create a fed-wide profile system to streamline the grants and contract application process and reduce the
data entry burden for investigators, and ORCID holds promise to be part of the solution.
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Source: http://sites.bu.edu/orcid/

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There are 38 authors whose last name is “Wang”
Source: 1- http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/26799652
2- MIyairi, N. (2016). ORCID: Connecting research & researchers. Paper presented at the Asia Open Access Summit 2016, INTEKMA Resort & Convention
Centre, Shah Alam.

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Build an online Curriculum Vitae
• Register with ResearcherID (Web of
Science) and ORCID
See more at: http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/content.php?pid=417077&sid=3408994
ResearcherID – an older id system associated with the Web of Science (WOS).
Your ORCID and ResearcherID profiles can easily be linked. Citation counts for
publications in ResearchID are automatically updated from WOS.
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) – a new, broadly supported
researcher profile that creates a unique author identification number. By
creating an authoritative publication list associated with your ID number, you
can minimize confusion with other researchers with similar names.
See more at: http://library.buffalo.edu/scholarly/action/
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ResearcherID gives author disambiguation a good
name, enhancing discoverability and ensuring credit where
credit is due
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Source: http://stateofinnovation.thomsonreuters.com/author-disambiguation-whats-in-a-
name

What is ResearcherID
• www.researcherid.com
• Online registry for creating a unique researcher ID number> helps in
disambiguation
• Build a publication list identifying your work
• Make your profile public or private
– Public profiles can be searched and viewed by others
• Generate citation metrics including: H-index
– Citation distribution per year
– Total Times Cited count
– Average Times Cited
Global research community where researchers connect Keep all your
publications in one place accessible anytime and anywhere on the web
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Source: Melissa Badenhorst (2015), Sales & Marketing Manager, WorldWide Information Services , Agent:
Thomson Reuters http://hdl.handle.net/2263/49260

ResearcherID is a unique digital alpha-numeric
identifier containing the year of creation.
74Source: http://libguides.nie.edu.sg/researcherid

75Source: Melissa Badenhorst (2015), Sales & Marketing Manager, WorldWide Information Services , Agent:

76Source: Melissa Badenhorst (2015), Sales & Marketing Manager, WorldWide Information Services , Agent:

ResearcherID is a tool to fight the problem of ambiguity
within the scientific community by supplying each scholar
with a unique identifier.
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Source: https://into.aalto.fi/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=11640219

My Publications
Manage | Add
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Step 1: Direct export
Build ResearcherID

Step 2: Exchange Data Between
ResearcherID and ORCID

Exchange Profile Data Between
ResearcherID and ORCiD
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Exchange Profile Data Between
ResearcherID and ORCiD
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ORCiD (Open Researcher and
Contributor ID)
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Link to other identifiers
84Source: MIyairi, N. (2016). ORCID: Connecting research & researchers. Paper presented at the Asia Open Access Summit 2016, INTEKMA Resort &

Collect & Connect flow
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DISPLAY
• In metadata
• On sites
• In publications
CONNECT
• Affiliations (employers)
• Works (publishers)
• Awards (funders)
Source: MIyairi, N. (2016). ORCID: Connecting research & researchers. Paper presented at the Asia Open Access Summit 2016, INTEKMA Resort &

Google Scholar Citations
– Track citations to your articles over time
– Check who is citing your publication
– Appear in Google Scholar search results (with
a public profile)
• Sign up for Google Scholar Citations.
See more at: http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/biblioinformatics/personal.htm
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Scopus Author Identifier
Each author in Scopus is assigned a
unique number. The author's
publications are then easily identified
and can be viewed as a single list.
Citation counts and h-index are
displayed.
See more at: http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/biblioinformatics/personal.htm
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How do I find my author ID?
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Find yourself in the Scopus database by using the ‘Author Search’ tab
Source: http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/open-research/2017/01/11/have-you-checked-who-you-are-recently/

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Thank you!
E-mail: aleebrahim@Gmail.com
Twitter: @aleebrahim
www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2414-2009
http://scholar.google.com/citations
All of my presentations are available online at:
https://figshare.com/authors/Nader_Ale_Ebrahim/100797
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References
1. Richard Van Noorden , Nature News, 27 August 2013
2. Ebrahimy, S., Mehrad, J., Setareh, F., & Hosseinchari, M. (2016). Path analysis of the relationship between visibility and citation: the mediating
roles of save, discussion, and recommendation metrics. Scientometrics 1-14. doi:10.1007/s11192-016-2130-z
3. Bong, Yiibonn and Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Increasing Visibility and Enhancing Impact of Research (April 24, 2017). Asia Research News 2017.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=295
4. Ale Ebrahim, N., Salehi, H., Embi, M. A., Habibi Tanha, F., Gholizadeh, H., Motahar, S. M., & Ordi, A. (2013). Effective Strategies for Increasing
Citation Frequency. International Education Studies, 6(11), 93-99. doi: 10.5539/ies.v6n11p93
5. Gasparyan, A. Y. (2013). Choosing the target journal: do authors need a comprehensive approach?. Journal of Korean medical science, 28(8),
1117-1119.
6. A. B. Wagner, “Author Identification Systems,” Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
7. Michael Ladisch, University College Dublin, 3rd Bibliometrics in Libraries meeting, York, UK, 4th July 2014
8. MIyairi, N. (2016). ORCID: Connecting research & researchers. Paper presented at the Asia Open Access Summit 2016, INTEKMA Resort &
Convention Centre, Shah Alam
My recent publication:
1. Parnianifard, A., Azfanizam, A., Ariffin, M., Ismail, M., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). Recent developments in metamodel based robust black-box simulation
optimization: An overview. Decision Science Letters, 8(1), 17-44. doi:10.5267/j.dsl.2018.5.004. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3192794
2. Elaish, M. M., Shuib, L., Ghani, N. A., Mujtaba, G., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). A Bibliometric Analysis of M-Learning from Topic Inception to 2015. International
Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 13(1), 91-112. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMLO.2019.096470
3. Nordin, N., Samsudin, M.-A., Abdul-Khalid, S.-N., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2018). Firms’ sustainable practice research in developing countries: Mapping the cited
literature by Bibliometric analysis approach. International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management.
4. Farahmand, E., Nor, M. M., Abbas, G. B., Ale Ebrahim, N., & Matinnia, N. (2018). Five Decades of Scientific Development on “Attachment Theory”: Trends and
Future Landscape. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 26(3), 1-16. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3266012
5. Amoozegar, Azadeh and Khodabandelou, Rouhollah and Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Major Trends in Distance Education Research: A Combination of Bibliometric and
Thematic Analyze (April 25, 2018). International Journal of Information Research and Review, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 5352-5359. Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3173980
6. Jamali, Seyedh Mahboobeh and Md Zain, Ahmad Nurulazam and Samsudin, Mohd Ali and Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Self-Efficacy, Scientific Reasoning, and Learning
Achievement in the STEM PjBL Literature (August 12, 2017). International Postgraduate Conference on Research in Education (IPCoRE 2017), School of
Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3067209
My recent presentations:
1. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2018): Scientific Misconduct. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7471988.v1
2. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2018): Collecting, Writing, and Publishing via “Research Tools”. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7472273.v1
3. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2018): New Tools for Measuring Research Impact. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7441403.v1
4. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2018): Research Tools for Collecting, Writing, Publishing and Disseminating your Research. figshare. Presentation.
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5877934.v1
5. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2017): Select a Research Brand Name. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5552869.v1
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